Category Archives: monstrous

Titles of Interest – Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History

May 19th, 2017 | Posted in demonic, demonology, monster hunter, monstrous

Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History by David Frankfurter Princeton University Press, 2008 In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day-care centers, impregnating girls for infant sacrifice, brainwashing adults, and even controlling the highest […]

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Titles of Interest – Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us

March 8th, 2017 | Posted in monster theory, monsters, monstrous, teratology, Titles of Interest

Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us Edited by Adam Golub and Heather Richardson Hayton Foreword by W. Scott Poole; Afterword by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen McFarland, 2017 About the Book Exploring the pedagogical power of the monstrous, this collection of new essays describes innovative teaching strategies that use our cultural fascination with […]

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Titles of Interest: Strangers, Gods and Monsters

February 16th, 2017 | Posted in monster theory, monsters, monstrous, teratology

Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness Richard Kearney Routledge, 2002 Strangers, Gods and Monsters is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Often overlooked in accounts of how we think about ourselves and others, Richard Kearney skillfully shows, with the help of vivid examples and illustrations, how […]

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Titles of Interest – At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture

February 16th, 2017 | Posted in monster theory, monsters, monstrous, pop culture, teratology

The fine blog, Sects and Violence in the Ancient World, had an interesting post on a volume worthy of inclusion in the Titles of Interest recommendations. It’s subject matter and approach are particularly relevant to our times. At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture Edward Ingebretsen University of Chicago Press, 2003 […]

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The Uncanny, Monstrous, and Genocide

December 4th, 2016 | Posted in genocide, monsters, monstrous, uncanny

I work as a scholar in two major areas, and the monstrous is at the center of both. These two areas came together in some of my recent research in genocide. Not long ago I finished the great book Less Than Human by David Livingstone Smith, that explores the process of dehumanization and how viewing […]

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Call for Papers: Promises of Monsters

November 6th, 2015 | Posted in call for papers, conference, monsters, monstrous

Promises of Monsters 28-29th of April 2016 University of Stavanger, Norway   Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Margrit Shildrick (Linköping University, Sweden) Assistant Professor Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut State University, US) Monsters are back, or perhaps they never went away. They haunt popular culture and social media. They lurk as images of dread and terror in politics, […]

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Titles of Interest – Beyond the Monstrous: Reading from the Cultural Imaginary

August 2nd, 2015 | Posted in cultural studies, cultures, monsters, monstrous, Titles of Interest

Beyond the Monstrous: Reading from the Cultural Imaginary (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013), edited by Janice Zehentbauer and Eva Gledhill Twenty-first century’s fascination with monsters in popular culture is not new. Throughout history, many of the world’s cultures have created beings they deem ‘other’ and ‘monstrous,’ beings which, many scholars agree, ultimately reveal humans’ own fears about […]

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Call for Presentations – Monstrous Geographies: Places and Spaces of Monstrosity

October 13th, 2014 | Posted in call for papers, monsters, monstrous

  Sunday 22nd March – Tuesday 24th March 2015, Lisbon, Portugal Call for Presentations This inter- and multidisciplinary conference focuses on the relationship between the monstrous and the geographic. We welcome proposals by academics, teachers, independent researchers, students, artists, NGOs and anyone interested in manifestations of monstrosity in space. Possible topics may include topics as […]

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‘The Walking Dead’ and the haunted world

March 17th, 2014 | Posted in horror, monstrous, nihilism, The Walking Dead, zombie

In this writer’s estimation the second half of Season 4 of The Walking Dead television series has been rather slow. This is, of course, deliberate as the destruction of the prison and the fragmentation of the group allows for the development of back stories and an exploration of how the characters respond to their new […]

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Brown University Graduate Student Conference on the Monstrous and the Religious Imagination

January 23rd, 2014 | Posted in conference, fantasy, monster theory, monsters, monstrous, religion

Brown University is presenting an upcoming conference titled “Beasts Monsters, and the Fantastic in the Religious Imagination.” The schedule from the website: Friday, February 28, 2014 Keynote Address 6:30-7:30pm  Dinner Reception 7:30pm  Saturday, March 1, 2014 Breakfast 8am-9am I. Morning Session: Doing Things with Demons 9am-10:45am  “When a Bad Being Does Good Things: The Demon […]

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